I love the act of creating and painting…the challenge and sometimes anxiety of the first mark and of filling a blank “canvas” with rich pastel pigments. When you look at these pigments they make you hungry! If you mix pastel…you get mud. You have to create layers of pigment and it gives the viewer a sense of unbelievable depth, dimension, and clarity of color. I love to play with the medium. Sometimes just making marks side by side on a good paper is insightful…the pigments are so pure its always surprising what you might come up with and what you might use in your next work.

Always do what you feel in your heart is good for you. The act of creating and painting is hard work that can sometimes lead to negative introspection, but it is what nourishes me spiritually and physically. I am at my best when I create. I always try to keep in mind that what I am doing is what I should be doing and that it will take care of me.